When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.

When the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt gripped the Midway.

When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Olga Ivinskaya was imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.

When the programme went fully networked on 6 March 1961, broadcast days changed to Monday and Wednesday.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.

When Tiberius died on 16 March AD 37, his estate and the titles of the Principate were left to Caligula and Tiberius's own grandson, Gemellus, who were to serve as joint heirs.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.

When Chernenko died in March 1985, Gorbachev assumed power unopposed.

When Diocletian reappeared in public on 1 March 305, he was emaciated and barely recognizable.

When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC, he set March 25 as the spring equinox.

# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.

When Russia ignored an Anglo-French ultimatum to abandon the Danubian provinces, England and France declared war on Russia on 28 March 1854.

When his presidency ended on March 4, 1825, James Monroe resided at Monroe Hill, what is now included in the grounds of the University of Virginia.

When he took office on March 4, 1845, Polk, at 49, became the youngest man at the time to assume the presidency.

When Tiberius died on 16 March 37 AD, Caligula was well positioned to assume power, despite the obstacle of Tiberius ’ s will, which named him and his cousin Tiberius Gemellus as joint heirs.

When Cannon finally ruled the resolution out of order at noon on March 19, Norris appealed the resolution to the full House, which voted to overrule Cannon, and then to adopt the Norris resolution.

When the Congress received notice of this on March 1, 1781, he joined Daniel Carroll in endorsing them for Maryland.

When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

When Communists seized power in March 1919 he refused to serve in the Red Army and returned back to medicine.

When Martin IV died on 28 March 1285, at Perugia, Cardinal Savelli was unanimously elected Pope on 20 May and took the name of Honorius IV.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

When the ACLU was founded in 1920, its focus was on freedom of speech, primarily for anti-war protesters.

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

When the Treaty of Versailles granted most of former Royal Prussia to the Second Polish Republic as the Polish Corridor in 1920, Pomesania remained in Germany as part of the exclave and province of East Prussia.

When the Communist Party of Great Britain applied to affiliate to the Labour Party in 1920 it was turned down.

When civil aircraft started to use the field ( 17 December 1920 ) it was often called Schiphol-les-bains.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his colleagues formed the GNA in Ankara on April 23, 1920, Kâzım Karabekir's XV Corps was the only corps which had any combat value.

* Revised Overture ( arranged by Geoffrey Toye, 1920 ; includes " I once was as meek ", " When the night wind howls ", " I know a youth ", " My eyes are fully open ", " I shipped, d ' ye see " and Hornpipe )

When it received its first professional revival in December 1920 in Glasgow – and then in London, in October 1921 – the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company made a number of further cuts and changes that were incorporated in scores and used in subsequent D ' Oyly Carte productions and recordings.

When a new Field Museum building opened near downtown Chicago in 1920, the museum organization moved and the former site was left vacant.

When Douglas Fairbanks was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife Mary Pickford, but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies ( his previous ones had largely failed )..

When Modigliani died on January 24, 1920, Hébuterne was pregnant with their second child.

When ground was broken for the Wrigley Building in 1920, there were no major office buildings north of the Chicago River and the Michigan Avenue Bridge, which spans the river just south of the building was still under construction.

When released in January 1920 against reports of the controversy, the film garnered large audiences in Chicago.

When he died, Seward left the home to his son, William Seward, Jr .; it passed on to his grandson, William Henry Seward III, in 1920.

When Piłsudski carried out a military thrust into Ukraine in 1920, he was met by a Red Army offensive that drove into Polish territory almost to Warsaw.

When the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution took effect in 1920, banning the sale, manufacturing and transportation of alcoholic beverages for public consumption, until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1933, some enterprising individuals in Freestone followed a national trend and began bootlegging for profit.

When the East experienced high rates of growth, as it did in the decades between 1890 and 1920, the Westward movement of the center slowed.

When Seminole County, Georgia was formed in January 1920, Donalsonville was named as the county seat.

When the Village of Malverne was seeking to become an incorporated village in 1920, the residents from this area did not wish to become part of the new village and therefore remained a hamlet under the Town of Hempstead.

When Isaac B. Tigrett became President of the GM & N in 1920, he ceased to direct the affairs of the Birmingham and Northwestern Railroad Company.

When these most important problems of the theory were solved, and a firm foundation for further work built, Milanković finished a book which was published in 1920, by the Gauthier-Villars in Paris under the title " Théorie mathématique des phénomènes thermiques produits par la radiation solaire " ( Mathematical Theory of Heat Phenomena Produced by Solar Radiation ).

When Alexander I died following an infection from a monkey bite in 1920, Venezelos was voted out of office, and a plebiscite restored Constantine to the throne.

When Casey's younger brother Martin Charles Casey wished to go to West Point, Griffin directly appointed him to the class of 1920 without having to pass the examination.

When he returned to Finland, in 1920, he became a teacher in Helsinki University Hospital.